Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-02-14
NEWS OF TEfE DAY.


All efforts TO induce strike on the Read
ing Railroad have failed.
Another baby camel has been born in
Druid Hill Park, Baltimore.
The sensational deadlock in the West
Virginia Legislature continues.
John 81. Strder, we'll known citizen Of
Jefferson county, West Va, is dead.
Reports are current in Vienna that En-.
peror William is in a very weak condition.
A.W. Church will succeed the late George
M. Weston as librarian of the United States
Senate.
A share in the Chemical National Bank
of New York, which originally cost Sl00, ID
now worth $1,000,
Ten prisoners, convicted recently of lar
ceny, we're publicly whipped in the jail yard
at New Castle, DEL, Saturday.
General Belknap has consented to restore
a picture taken from the South Carolina
State Capitol during the burning OF Colam'
bia.
A republican clerk in the New York Gus
tom. house, who recently passed an examl'
nation for promotion, has been removed for
incompetency.
Il is reported that Treasurer Thomas NJ.
Joseph of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
in Texas, is short in his accounts to the ex-
tent of over $4,000.
A telegram from Sewanee, Tenn, an
nounces the death there of the 1T. Rev.
William Mercer Green, for the past forty
years bishop ofthe Episcopal diocese OF Mis-
sissippi.
Garden City, l.. l., is to be sold. The
10 900 acres, with the exception OF the
ground on which stand the Cathedral, Cas-
ipo, st. Paul's School and the water works,
is to be mapped out and sold in lots.
Mr.. JEFF. Melbourne, through his counsel,
fled bill in the Baltimore Circuit Court
on SatHSday to enjoin the sale of the Volna
Drug and Chemical Company. advertised to
take place on the 25th Of February next,
under foreclosure OF mortgage to WIN. >.
Powell, and for receiver.
Vice. President Cakes and Superinten-
dent of Motive Power Cushing, of the
Northern Pacific Railway, are haTing built
at the company's shops in st. Paul, Mimi,
an experimental iron car, intended tosupply
heat, light and pure water to passenger
trains. The car is to Immediately follow
the engine.
A freight engine on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad ran into sn east bound freight
train, near Vaudeville, yesterday, crushing
the csboose and two loaded box cars, and
scattering their contents in every direction.
Engineer D. Manford and Firemen Frank
Dunn jumped and escaped with slight in-
juries. The engine was badly damaged.
Twenty-Five cadets and officers have been
arrested in st. Petersburg for connection
with the recently discovered conspiracy
against the government. grand general
of the staff of the academy is implicated.
Nearly all the prisoners are connected with
the naval and military schools. Among
! the others are several university students
In the Senate on Saturday there was a
lengthy debate on the amendment to the
Postotfice appropriation bill appropriating
100000 for the mails TO South America. A
free ship" amendment was voted down
yeas 10, nays Bland then the $5OO,O0U
amendment was adopted by vote of 80 to
IA. The amendment provides that the
mails shall be carried by American steam
ships In the House the Senate bill for the
retirement and recoinage of the TRACE dol
lar was passed, after being amended so as
to provide that "the coinage of trade dol
lars recoined under this act shall not be con.
sidered as part of the silver bullion required
to be purchased and coined under the pro-
visions of the Bland law"
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